What are your most consistent typos?

[Rii]

Not a typo, but I'm a bit baffled about the word "cancelled". My spellchecker always flags it and says it should be "canceled". I see it spelled both ways in "official" places.

'Cancelled' is British, i.e. the correct way.

For the most part I ignore spell checkers. Even in cases where I'm uncertain that my spelling was correct, half the time it turns out the word simply wasn't in the application's database.

 

[RoJoHen]

Not a typo, but I'm a bit baffled about the word "cancelled". My spellchecker always flags it and says it should be "canceled". I see it spelled both ways in "official" places.

'Cancelled' is British, i.e. the correct way.

Well, "canceled" doesn't make any amount of sense anyway. Based on the rules of pronunciation, you need 2 Ls, otherwise that second to last E would make a different sound.

I don't know who ever decided that "canceled" was the correct spelling, because they clearly weren't paying attention in elementary school.

 

[propita]

Rogue

Reccomend

Decision

Resurrection

Insurrection

definitely

"Recommend."

I remember it as re-commend, as in something has been commended and being commended again, so it is being re-commended.

I'm always getting my I's and E's mixed up in "being" and "friend". In fact I'm not sure I've got it right there.
I tend to write "theese" instead of "these", and get "Then" and "Than" mixed up too.

"I before e except after c, unless it sounds 'A' as in neighbor and weigh."

Convenient. I always seem to type it as "conveinent."

So, convenient is not so convenient for me, because I have to always go back and correct it.

I remember that as con-ven-i-ent, sounding out each syllable. Like to-get-her. Or Connect-i-cutt, pronouncing the middle c when I'm spelling it.

I can never remember commission--two m's and one s? one m and two s's? one of each? It's two of each. Stupid word.

 

[Zulu Romeo]

Rogue

Reccomend

Decision

Resurrection

Insurrection

definitely

"Recommend."

I remember it as re-commend, as in something has been commended and being commended again, so it is being re-commended.

That's how I remember it too.

Imagine the embarrassment of not knowing how to spell "embarrassment." Yes, I went there before.

 

[Miss Chicken]

I don't think that I make many spelling mistakes but I do often leave out the word NOT when I say something

For example I might mean to say

"I do not like George Bush" and instead say "I do like George Bush".

I always used to write definitely as definatly all the time. Even now I slow it down in my head as I write it, def-ini-tely

I break it down as de-finite-ly.

Edited to say - I often mistype 'down' as "doen" but generally notice that I have done it and correct it before I post.

 

[RoJoHen]

I don't think that I make many spelling mistakes but I do often leave out the word NOT when I say something

For example I might mean to say

"I do not like George Bush" and instead say "I do like George Bush".

This is exactly what I do, too.

 

[MNM]

I always type "teh" instead of "the", it's due how I move my fingers over the keyboard. (I actually did it on the "the" just before "keyboard" when writing this too...)

 

[scotpens]

ratio, ration

That one happens to me a lot. For some reason, my fingers want to add an "N" after the word "ratio." I also frequently type the name Robertson as Robertosn.

Not a typo, but I'm a bit baffled about the word "cancelled". My spellchecker always flags it and says it should be "canceled". I see it spelled both ways in "official" places.

Doubling the final "L" when adding a suffix is mainly a British thing: counselling, modelling, quarrelled, jeweller, travelling, cruellest, etc.

 

[Kestra]

ratio, ration

That one happens to me a lot. For some reason, my fingers want to add an "N" after the word "ratio."

Exactly! I don't know what it is, but I nearly always add the "n" onto the end and then have to erase/cross it out/delete it.

Not a typo, but I'm a bit baffled about the word "cancelled". My spellchecker always flags it and says it should be "canceled". I see it spelled both ways in "official" places.

Doubling the final "L" when adding a suffix is mainly a British thing: counselling, modelling, quarrelled, jeweller, travelling, cruellest, etc.

British or not, I do the double "L" thing quite often. It's just prettier.

 

[Mistral]

I always type "teh" instead of "the", it's due how I move my fingers over the keyboard. (I actually did it on the "the" just before "keyboard" when writing this too...)

This^. All of teh time. Unless it's "all of t hetime", which i also do alot. And resturaunt. (WhatEver!)

 

[bluedana]

"Numberous" instead of numerous. I don't know why.

More embarrassing? "Untied States" -- it doesn't get picked up by spell check and, um, I work for the federal government.

 

[Miss Chicken]

As I never do it myself, I do get annoyed at people who constantly refer to "Israel" as "Isreal".

 

[Gepard]

I almost always type "from" as "form." I also intert spaces in the wrong locations, so writing "The Doctor flew from Gallifrey in his TARDIS" will come out "Th eDoctor flew for mgallifrey i nhis TARDIS."

Needless to say, I make use of spellcheck quite frequently.

 

[MeanJoePhaser]

As I never do it myself, I do get annoyed at people who constantly refer to "Israel" as "Isreal".

 

[Nardpuncher]

soemthing

epsidoe

 

[MetalPants]

For the longest time I spelled destroy as deystroy. Took about five years or so to get out of that habit.

 

[Australis]

soemoen, andf, beofre, nad, few others, I'll get back to you.

 

[propita]

Ditto on the "nad," "from/form" stuff. I HATE that, cuz spellchecker won't catch it.

 

[Goliath]

Most of the time I for some reason miss the comma. I invariably type can;t or aren;t and have to go back and fix it. I can't seem to break it.

That's the mistake I make most often myself. It's annoying.

 

[Lor'Vela]

I generally don't make typos when creating posts on forums, emails etc. but as some of my MSN contacts are aware, I am quite clumsy when it comes to instant messenging. My most common mistake is "You're" instead of "Your".

I also have this habit of missing out words completely and/or somehow substituting one word for another. It's quite embarrassing, especially whenever I talk to my non-native English speaking contacts.